Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:49:47 09/07/01
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On September 07, 2001 at 01:23:35, Joshua Lee wrote: >Recently in a response to my post about TYPP test set i was saying that someone >can get a faster computer and that's not what Correspondence is about etc blah >blah > >Well i mentioned the DEC Alpha with 512 Cpu's >but apparently crafty and other programs will not work on this. >What is the fastest system for Ferret or Crafty or any onther program that can >be run on these unix type systems? > >What about Dual booting Something like this ? Deep Fritz only uses 8 cpu's what >about other "Deep Programs"? What is the Ecentric Wealthy Chessplayers options >here? What about the Quad 800Mhz Itanium ? > >Thankyou I can only speak for Crafty. It can run on any platform that is SMP. It won't (currently) run on message passing architectures like the cluster of alphas you mentioned. The largest number of processors I have tested with was 32. But there is no real limit in that regard, just so the machine is based on shared memory and not message passing.
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